Exploratory Project.
As per my
project plan, I experimented with a wide range of media and possibilities which
included mark-making, painting, charcoal, collage (most specifically paper
collage) and found objects(box files) evolving around the central idea of
fragmentation and layering. Ideas were constructed, deconstructed and
reconstructed using several iterative circles while concentrating on an intuitive response. I was also able to
explore the notion of space and composition/the relationship of the 2D and the 3D by
producing multiple pieces of painting and sculptures to act as a puzzle to the
whole which will project different viewpoints at different angles to the viewer
for a unique experience/appreciation.
Some possibilities were discarded as
printing and pastels as I was most concerned to move on and to explore on the
ideas emerging, on what I was discovering and on accidental effects.
Setting
the scene
'Scribbles
are products of a systematic investigation, rather than haphazard actions’.
John
Matthews (1999), The Art of Childhood and Adolescence: The Construction of
Meaning. London: Falmer (p. 19)
I started my Exploratory Project with Mark-Making (felt pens/coloured
pencils) as this activity was to deal with the idea of making simple meaning
through play and remaining truthful to what I was doing with what I was feeling
and thinking. However, I feel now that this activity took another dimension as
I seriously started to feel drawn to intricate patterns and complex designs. I
feel that the whole of my project is in a way a subconscious personal search on
the concept of ordering and even my collages are making sense to me as a form
of mark-making.
I also explored paint and discovered/learnt a whole range of
possibilities simply with colours. My experiments were rather small (A5 size)
however, as I tried large canvas (A1), I was able to step back and appreciate
the work from a distance which in a way enhanced the idea of depth.
I then tried the fragmentation stage of re-arranging/fracture/reconstruction
(collage), which had much to do with risk-taking but also about calculation and
problem-solving. Most of the time I would only move on when I was fully satisfied
with what I was doing. At this stage I found out that I enjoyed being in
control; of finding solutions to the multiple possibilities which I was
encountering at each stage which in a way were unlimited.
The idea of the box was mostly about my combining fascination
with viewpoints/space/composition in general and also about the boundaries of
the two dimensional and three dimensional aspects (art and life). By unifying
several pieces as a whole I was creating yet another way of layering/juxtaposition
only through the display.
What I think could be a flaw in a way to this Exploratory
Project is the fact that I became enthusiastic (and curious) about how these
ideas would look as a finished work and moved accordingly towards this fact without
exploring other possibilities, thus putting an end to process.
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